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/ H kv m. r, December 11, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, South Caronm Page Number Elgin 3E 3E vm allant-Belk Company’s *.<■**• * v • PRE-INVENTORY SALE AND BEFORE XMAS SALE I* M pf N’S 'CLOfflING Men’s 2 Pants Suits, formerly priced, $29.50 and $24.50, $14.95 &• gin t Men’s Suits, 2 pants, reduced 'i» * I * • * • ' • * 0 ■ from $I9.95 to * $9.95 mmi y. ‘ T2. Men’s Suits, included in this lot Style Plus, Art Fashion, Belt’s Special and others, ■-k ■•Mil' • ■ mi .95 'V Meii’s Pin Stripe arid Blue Serge Double lexture Suits, v sold by others for $37.50, our Price. ' $22.45 Boys’ Overcoats Vo price $4.95 $3.95 “ $2.95 $2.48 $1.98 $1.48 Gold Seal and Certainteed First Quality Rugs $11.95 values, pre-inventory, sale price, 9x12 New Fall Patterns $6.95 ■ r- — .Boys’ all Wool Overcoats, values up to $7.95 DECEMBER Farm Calendar THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE THIS MONTH Stockholm is proud of a new eight-story 2,000-car garage. Clothing for the poor is kept in each of the twenty city halls of Paris. Agronomy Weather permitting turn heavy soils that have no cover crops. Put cotton under cover to pre vent loss of $5 to $10 per bale. Clean up briars and plum thick ets around edges of field. Horticulture Prune fruit trees and bunch grapes. Make garden plans, get catalogs, and order seeds before seedsmen . pnnn , , , . , are out of desirable varieties. Turquino, is 8,000 feet high. More than 2,000 women are studing medicine in German uni versities. A rubber-tired wheel, equipped j with ball bearings, is an improve ment for wheelbarrows, said to make pushing easier. Hibernation is as common among spiders as among bears. Cuba’s highest mountain, Pico England obtained the pattern for her early churches from mis sionaries from Italy. Homed toads will turn canni bal if there is nothing else for them to eat. Toyland is Overflowing with Better Toys for Less Money We sell Everything and Sell it for Less' ^ALLANT-BELK GREENWOOD'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE” COMPANY “THE HOME OF BETTER VALUES 999 = start for school next year. I want you to bring me a tricycle, pair of IONAL AND ▲ t ? TrFTnv/fC gloves and fruits, nuts, candies and 11 HiiVlO fireworks. Don’t forget my little and the brother, Frank, Jr. Your friend, JACK DEASON. id Mrs. R. L. Willis >rt f of Greenville spent i here with relatives. Clarks Hill, S. C„ Dec. 10, 1930. Dear Santa Claus: Hen I y TvJ^i n0I Q«fiViP' I am a good little boy six years old and go to school and mind my . a » were .teacher. I want you to bring me a here Sunday. | steam shovel, dump truck and% a • ' , . repeating rifle what shoots rubber Mrs. L. N. Chamberlain balls A11 kinds ‘ of frultSt nuts, to spend th£ winter in ean^y an d fireworks. Please don’t mrg, Fla. v / forget my teacher, Miss McKinney, 2b*1so mother and daddy. »ston Finley, Mr. andCS With lots of love to you and Finley, Mrs. Annie Lee Mrs.. Santa. > , and baby from Columbia , Your little boy, Tuesday with Mrs. Sarah ( x g. C. SANDERS. ^ r a Bryan Jennings and Joe p Holloway were business visitors in Augusta and Harlem, Ga., yes- teraay. K" f- . — x If fruit trees have not already been set, do so this month; fall planting in the South is preferable to early spring planting. Order seed potatoes for delivery by early February. Prepare hot-beds for sowing in January. Prune scuppernong vines to- De cember 15. Propagate grapes and ornament al deciduous shrubs from new cut tings. Protect the large shade trees by covering the exposed roots with soil. Injurious Insects and Diseases Bum trash and weeds in gardens and fields to destroy hibernating insects. Bum orchard prunings to destroy shot-hdle borer. Plow under old stalks to destroy insects. Bum twigs severed by girdlers. Apply lime sulphur or oil emul sion sprays or dormant orchards. Agricultural Engineering Plan to keep the tractor busy during the winter witlr belt jobs, sawing wood, lumber, feed grind ing, etc. Cut in cotton stalks and other material on the land with a disc harrow. Build and repair terraces now so that they may settle before the hard spring and summer rains. The new type farm explosives are inexpensive methods of getting rid of stumps and digging Hitches. This is a good time to build or repair fence3 if you are to handle livestock. Store machinery that has been used during cultivating season and grease parts that are likely to rust. Animal Husbandry Provide plenty of bedding, under good shelter, for hogs. • Make liberal use of winter for ages (barley, rye, and oats) for hog grazing. Do not allow the sheep to take the cold winter rains. Give beef cattle , good roughage, such as legume hay. Feed mules cottonseed meal along with other concentrates, if grass hay or fodder is used for roughage. Give idle "mules access to rough- age and cut concentrates one-half. Dairying Protect dairy cattle from direct drafts and from rains. Feed good-quality roughages .to the limit of appetite for milking cows. Feed grain in proportion to milk produced by each cow. 8:30. ^The organization will make a Give dairy cattle access to pure phonograph record of the Alma fresh drinking water. Mater and one other number. It Limit cows to one and a half is brcbable that they will appear to two hours’ gracing on winter on the program at several teas, cover crops per day. Sunday night the club will hear ‘ Poultry the Chicago Civic Opera Company. The club will return to the Uni versity about December 17 or 18. Mr. Luther Andrews of McCor mick is a member of the Glee Club and is enjoying the trip north. XXX University Glee Club Sings Sunday P. M. The mens glee club of the Uni versity of South Carolina will make its first Columbia appearance Sun day night at 8 o’clock at the First Baptist church. Several sacred numbers will be rendered. I. Next week the club will- offer a full evening’s program at the uni- Cyrus E. Dallin, Utah sculptor, has been commissioned to design the Massachusetts bay tercenten ary half dollar, of which 500,000 will be struck off. 353 Free poultry house from drafts. Keep the laying flock in good flesh. Feed the molters liberally to get early production. Get brooding equipment in order. WANT MS. REDUCTION on high grade cab bage plants on quantities from 500 or more. See/write or phone H. R. Deason, McCormick, S. C. Glee Club To Leave UVv,. r , LU.o<r/-k IUU evenings program at, li.c mu- property, see or write me. Monday r OI i^llicafifo versity chapel. The proceeds from st urke v McCormick, S. C. •> will oiH in firm nr* in O' — J ’ FOtt. RENT OR SALE—Anyone de siring to buy, rent or sell ar~ property, see or write me. M. L. B V Santa Claus Letters this concert will aid in financing the club’s trip to Chicago, which will be made week after next. The , Itpo. (University News of last week.) W111 ma ,uc wcc*. o-alc:! ! ro** caif rKss river bnt- The final steps toward ^perfec- public is invited to this concert, FOR^SALE Fir ^c ass ^ 4tpo. -w. tion are being made these last few and a .nominal admission fee will P ^< ton ' days by the University Glee Club, be charged, it is Announced. t Cowan. Boideaux.^c.—___ Ware Shoals, S. C., Dec. 10, 1930. leaves Monday for Chicago.! Tuesday morning the singers will' oi u Intensive practices have been held i appear on the chapel program at BUYING—Green Pme Slabs. J. B. •Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl seven years oia. for the j ast severa i weeks and in the Columbia high school. | Blackwell’s Store, McCormick. I go to school every day. I am in order to accustom the singers to ~ ‘ * ' ‘ _ i the second grade. I want you to performing before an audience bring me a black board, a doll and several public appearances have doll trunk. Don’t forget my little been made The club has given brother, three years old. He wants Dr0 g ram s at Moncks Corner, be- a wagon and a little car. Bring us fore tlie school suoerintend- lots of candy, fruit and nuts. Please « n tc.> meeting, at the First Bao- remember little Louise Dillasnaw. tfst Church, and at the Columbia _ She will be with us for Christmas. High school chapel exercises. To- , vine, Ky., and Corbin, Ky. She wants a doll and a little tea & 1 ' t' ' ggk. x - Lots of love to Santa Claus. ' Your little children. Mary Ruth*and Billie Gable. Saturday night club will go to s c Graniteville, S. C.. in its own bus, to present a proerram. | Monday week the club will leave for Chicago. En route they will srive several concerts. Among the towns where thev have engage ments are, Asheville. N. C., Louis- Sale Of Sheriff TAX EXECUTION STATE* OF SOUTH CAROLINA, sorrow thev will make an appear- | white in Chicago the club will Coimtv of M'-Co—ick, ance at Graniteville the last be- , sing at the Sherwood Recital Hall W. T. STROM, Sheriff, fore leaving on the trip. in the Fine Arts building. It is against The trip this year is the most probable that they will broadcast W. S. PIPKIN, pmbitious undertaking vet to be and will make a phonograph rec- By virtue of Tax Execution to me . attempted by the Glee Club. Three ord. They will sing at several teas, directed, I have distrained and McCormick S C Dec. 10, 1930. end possibly more cities will hear an d affairs have been planned for levied upon and will sell to the Dear Santa Claus' ’ ’ them en route to ,Chicago apd in them at the various cities where highest bidder at public auction i am a little boy 9 years old and that city they will appear several they stop. within the legal hours of sate at I want you to bring me a wagon times. Maurice Matteson, director of the McCormick Court House on Mon- »nd a pair of skates and a pencil The club has purchased a bus of organizaiton, asks all Columbians day, the 5th day of January. A. D. box and fireworks lots of fruits own and will make the trip in w ho have friends in any citie'' 1931, the following described prop- 1 - this vehicle. Maurice Matteson, where the Glee Club plays, to let ertv to director of tv»e club, will drive the them know that the club will sin° All fixtures including Soda bus and with him will go about there.—The Columbia Record of Fountain, Show Cases, Cabinets, twenty-six students. November 28th. etc., also, all of the stock of goods The organization will leave Flinn X consisting of Medicines, Toilet Hall early Monday morning and TVTi^vrriT^T^ A Hides dgars. tobaccos, etc., of will arrive in Asheville for a con- lNUllLJl< the said W. S. Pipkin now lopated m nuts, and candy. Your little boy, CHARLES EDWARD FOOSHE. McCormick, S. C., Dec. 10, 1930. Dear Santa Claus: ^ ^ Christmas is nearly here and I ce rt^Monday night. Their next ~ ' in his Drug Store on Main Street, want you to please bring me a lum- aDDearancP w tn be made at Cor- All members of Mabple Camp No. in the town of McCormick, County ber jacket, pair of boots and some bin Ky wb i cb W jji be followed by 116, W. O. W., are urged to be and State aforesaid, fruits, nuts, candies and fire- an ’engagement at Louisville. Pos- present Tuesday night, December Distrained and levied on and to works. Don’t forget my teacher, sibly one m ore appearance will be 16th. It is very important that as be sold as the property of the said Miss Harris. mode before orriving at Chicago. many members as possibly can be W. S. Pipkin tb satisfy the afors- Your friend, TbP c i ub w ju re ach Chicago eith- there as officers for 1931 are to be said Execution and costs. BOBBY DEASON. Pr Thursday dr Friday according elected and there is some other Terms of Sate:—Cash. to its plans and will broadcast Fri- very important business to be at- W. T. STROM, VTernrmicR S C, Dec. 10, 1930. day night. Saturday night the tended to. Sheriff of McCormick County, Claus ei lib will Sing at Sherwod Recital, C. H. FOOSHE, C. C. South Carolina. x I am just 5 years old and wil. Hall in the Fine Arts building at C. H. HUGULEY, Clerk. .. Dec. 9, 1930.-4t. . > EVERY DAY IN WEEK Due to the decline in the price of cattle and hogs we are offering our fresh meats at lower prices than heretofore. These prices are good for every day in the week and also apply to orders delivered. We use the best kind of refrigeration facilities. We are members of the give away club ask us for par ticulars. Choice Steak 20c Beef Roast - - 15c Stew Beef a____ 12 Vac Mixed Sausage, 20c lb. 2 lbs. for _ 35c Pork Sausage 25c Whole Pork Ham 23c Pork Chops Breakfast Bacon 35c Cured Ham 35c Boiled Ham 1 55c Weiners 25c Bal °g ua - 25c Fish - - ] 2 "4c FRESH OYSTERS AT ALL TIMES HOWARD SMITH’S MEAT MARKET Phone No. 19 McCORMICK, S. C. T FAIL TO ATTEND OUR DECEMBER SALE Our prices are cut below cost. Goods are cheap er than they have been in fifteen years. If you need the goods, attend this sale and buy cheap. We are listing a few numbers: 10-4 Unbleached Sheet ing, worth 45c Per yd., a special per yard L:J Women’s and Children’s Jersey 1 Qff* Bloomers * SHOES The biggest Value ever offered in Shoes, all styles, per pair WWW Men’s Fancy 4 7t* Rayon Socks __ ■ Overall for men each and Jacket 89c Women’s Sport Rib\Hose Men’s Best Union Suits $1.00 value for only www OUTING SHEETING PLAY CLOTH TICKING SCRIM » CRETONNE GINGHAM \ NAINSOOK 36 inch 36 in LONG CLOTH Children’s Ribbed Hose, a good value 1 Off* for only ■ VC A big reduction in en amel ware. Get what you need at reduced prices. McCormick, S^C. rf.'